IX International Congress

International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature  (IGEL)
Association Internationale pour l'Etude Empirique de la Littérature
Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturwissenschaft
Edmonton, Canada: August 3-7, 2004

1a. Workshop: How Literature Enters Life, I. Chair: Els Andringa

• Schreier, Margrit, Özen Odag & Norbert Groeben. Identification, involvement, immersion: experiential states during reading
• Eng, Tracy C., Don Kuiken, Krister Temme, and Ruby Sharma. Navigating the Complexities of Two Cultures: Bicultural Competence, Feeling Expression, and Feeling Change in Dreams
• Aaftink, Cathelein. Reading Related to Pivotal Life Experiences: Content Correspondence Uniting Fiction and Life

1b. Academic and educational studies. Chair: Sara Davis

• Pinto, Marcello de Oliveira. Literature in the classroom: observations on the formation of readers
• Ingerslev, Gitte Holten. The Teacher's Teaching of Literature and the Student's Concept of Reading
• Wells Jopling, Rebecca, Keith Oatley, and Alison Kerr. Textual Imagery and Feelings of Intimacy with the Author in High-School Readers of Short Stories

1c. Narrative reception, I. Chair: Willie van Peer

• Green, Melanie, Paul Rozin, Amelia Aldao, Beth Pollack, and Adam Small. Effect of Story Detail on Transportation and Identification with Characters
• Levorato, M. Chiara and Aldo Nemesio. Cognitive and Emotional Responses while Reading a Short Story
• Claassen, E.H.P.M. (Eefje). How Dead is the (Immoral) Author? Author Inferences in the Reading of Literary Text

2a. Workshop: How Literature Enters Life, II. Chair: Don Kuiken

• Hummel, Rhea. Literature's Influence on Artists' Worldviews
• Burbaum, Christina. Poetry as a means to many ends
• Laarakker, Karin. What adult and adolescent readers say about Harry Potter. Exploring the transition from reading juvenile to adult literature
• Hug, Theo. Media Memories in Focus Group Discussions - Methodical Reflections and Selected Results of Global Media Generations Project

2b. Panel: Media Culture Studies: Steps Towards a Turnaround. Chair: Siegfried Schmidt. Round table to involve the following discussants:

• Schmidt, Siegfried J. Introduction
• Zurstiege, Guido. Standstill through Innovation -- the McLuhan Case
• Keller, Katrin. From the Death of the Author to the Birth of the Star: Some Theses towards the Integration of Literary Studies into Media Culture Studies
• Jünger, Sebastian. Literature -- thinking and talking about the reading of writing

2c. Literature and media at the interface. Chair: Willie van Peer

• Ritterfeld, Ute, Peter Vorderer, Christoph Klimmt and Sandra Niebuhr. Entertaining Media and Language Learning in 3 and 4 Yrs. Old
• Chesnokova, Anna and Milena Mendes. Intimate Relationships and Age Gap: the Influence of Fiction
• Hilscher, Michelle C., and Gerald C. Cupchik. From the Page to the Stage: Writing and Performing Poetry

3a. Workshop: Do Empirical Studies In Literature Practically Affect Society? Chair: Sibylle Moser

• Moser, Sibylle. Overview of Workshop
• Nemesio, Aldo. Beyond Canons and Other Limits: Towards a Multicultural Society
• van Dijk, Nel. Media Hypes in Arts and Culture
• Davis, Sara N. Romance Novels: Bridging the Gap Between Readers and Scholars

3b. Panel: Media Culture Studies, continued. Chair: Siegfried Schmidt

• Jacke, Christoph. Does trivial media equal trivial studies? On the complexity and reflexivity of media cultural approaches dealing with popular culture.
• Zierold, Martin. Media offers as occasions for remembering - an alternative perspective on text and meaning
• Schmidt, Siegfried J. Literature as mode of observation
• Dungs, Tino. Revolving Strategy of Aiming at Equilibrium. In Consideration of Reflexive Stability

3c. Narrative reception, II. Chair: Peter Dixon

• Geist, Anton. "You Naïve Idiot! Couldn't you see she's a liar?!" The Effect of the Reader Construction 'Unreliable Narrator' on the Interpretation of the Narrator's Information
• Mohsni, Lilia, David S. Miall, Don Kuiken, and Michelle Gregus. How Readers Respond to Ambiguity
• Lucas, Duncan. Tomkins's "cognitive system" and Proust's Memory

4a. Panel: The aesthetics of social movement in modern societies. The media as the media of protest, an intercultural comparison. Chair: Kathrin Fahlenbrach

• Jacke, Christoph. The Vanishing of Criticism? A Survey on Media Cultural Theories
• Zurstiege, Guido. Advertising -- the Homoeopathic Shock
• Knoch, Habbo. The Politics of Pictures: Photography and Terrorism in Germany, 1968-1977
• Fahlenbrach, Kathrin. The Aesthetics of Protest in the Media of 1968 in Germany
• Viehoff, Reinhold. Protest in the Radio of the GDR. The magazine Transit

4b. Symposium on Foregrounding. Chairs: Jèmeljan Hakemulder and Willie van Peer

• Fialho, Olívia. Foregrounding and refamiliarization: understanding readers' response to literary texts
• Hakemulder, Jèmeljan. Effects of foregrounding in film: Running into some obstructive or cooperative syuzhets
• Miall, David S. Foregrounding and the Sublime: A proposal
• Hakemulder, Jèmeljan, Sonia Zyngier, and Willie van Peer. Foregrounding and aesthetic appreciation: Lines on feeling

4c. Institutional history: the literary system. Chair: Sibylle Moser

• Andringa, Els and Arthur Kooijman. Entering the Dutch Poly-system: the Case of Virginia Woolf
• Nel van Dijk. Comparative research into the bestseller system: Donna Tartt's The Secret History as a case study
• László, János and Orsolya Vincze. Coping with historical tasks: The role of historical novels in transmitting psychological patterns of national identity

5a. Reading in history, I. Chair: János László

• Rose, Jonathan. Winston Churchill and the Literary History of Politics
• Stewart, Larry L. Calculating Gender: Empirical Analysis and Gender Assumptions in Eighteenth-Century England
• Yacobi, Tamar. Reception vis-a-vis Production: The Case of Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata

5b. Panel: Perspectives on Three Decades of Cognitivist Efforts, I: Papers. Chair: Andrew Elfenbein

• Cronquist, Ulf. Literary Studies, Reading Minds and Interdisciplinarity: The Paradox of Cognitive Irreducibility?
• Eder, Jens. The Analysis of Affective Reactions in Film Viewing. Towards an Integrative Model

5c. Genres and readers: high/low. Chair: Sibylle Moser

• Dixon, Peter and Marisa Bortolussi. The Role of Expectations in Genre Approach Behavior
• Gregus, Michelle, and Don Kuiken. Reader-defined Genres: The Contrasting Influences of Ludic and Literary Fiction
• Roberts, Thomas J. How Does the Poem Get to the Brain?

6a. Reading in history, II. Chair: Sara Davis

• Hurley, Valerae. Hawking Terror: Newspapers and The Discourse of Vengeance in the French Revolution, 1789-1794
• Lang, Kathrin. Tempted by the well-made tale: fictionalized crime cases and their effects on readers in early nineteenth-century England
• Scrimgeour, Andrew Mapping the Intellectual Landscape of the Humanities

6b. Panel: Emotions and the Community Building Function of the Media, I. Chair: Anne Bartsch

• Döveling, Katrin. Emotions and the Community Building Function of the Media
• Cupchik, Gerald C. The Complementarity of Emotion and Cognition
• Bartsch, Anne & Susanne Hübner. Emotional communication -- a theoretical model

6c. REDES discussion session. Chair: Sonia Zyngier

• Round table, to introduce REDES to IGEL. Including Sonia Zyngier, Willie van Peer, David Miall, Jèmeljan Hakemulder, and students involved in the project.

7a. Issues of multiculturalism: reception, education. Chair: János László

• Sopcak, Paul. Response to and Acceptance of Violence in Literature: Cultural Differences
• Zyngier, Sonia, Olivia Fialho, and Danielle Menezes. Invisible Wars: violence in daily papers
• Gao Wei, David S. Miall, Don Kuiken. The Receptivity of Canadian Readers to Chinese Literature
• Mycak, Sonia. Theorising an Australian multicultural literary culture.

7b. Panel: Emotions and the Community Building Function of the Media, II. Chair: Anne Bartsch

• Hübner, Susanne. The Power of Emotion -- Attention Regulation and the Media
• Unz, Dagmar and Peter Winterhoff-Spurk. Analyzing emotional processes while watching TV news
• Schwab, Frank. Are we amusing ourselves to death? Answers from evolutionary psychology

7c. Poetry production and reception. Chair: Don Kuiken

• Hilscher, Michelle C., and Gerald C. Cupchik. Reading, Hearing, and Seeing Poetry Performed
• Barney, Tom. English metre and what it sounds like
• Díaz, Jose M. and Antonio Herrera. Readers' expectations: The case of poetry
• Moser, Sibylle. Laurie Anderson's 'Kokoku': Reading versus Listening. How Aesthetic Experts Distinguish between Media Modes